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It's interesting that the great fear of libertarians has always been a global currency, but Bitcoin is simultaneously global and antithetical to governmental manipulation/intervention. It's similar to how Orwell feared a world in which cameras are omnipresent, yet now that we've finally got that (with smartphones and YouTube) the big losers are the oppressive governments that could previously get away with hiding their police brutality and corrupt politicians. Distributed technologies like the Internet, Bitcoin, and 3D printing will bring about massive political changes in the next 40-50 years.

Also, the latest issue of Bitcoin Magazine, December 2012, brings an article on page 34-35, written by Jon Matonis, that may make you think.
The title is: Bitcoin Prevents Monetary Tyranny
And the first paragraph is:
"Bitcoin is not about making rapid global transactions with little or no fee. Bitcoin is about preventing monetary tyranny. That is its raison d'être."
And indeed, although bitcoin introduces much freedom from all sorts of fees and can be a very promising technology for things like micro-payments on the web, that is not the main reason it is considered a disruptive technology and a giant leap for mankind, as it was the acquisition of language or the invention of Gutenberg, the press.

Bitcoins are not numbers that you have to discover.
It is a misconception that a bit-coin is a piece, just a piece made up from a sequence of 0 and 1; that you store those magical bit coin pieces in your wallet and that miners discover those coins by solving a mathematical problem.
The coins actually don't exist. That is part of the irony of the name Satoshi gave it. Maybe to make us think and undertsand it all better.
Coins first come into existence as the output of a transaction.
Then those coins are spent as the input to another transaction.
A "coin" is really an output of a transaction. It exists only as a chain of digital signatures.
The first things you have to undertsand well are some cryptography concepts like what is a digital signature, or what is a hash.
I recommend you read about it somewhere.
For instance at http://www.pgpi.org/doc/pgpintro/ ,you can read about some of these concepts.
PGP is not used by bitcoin but is a very chief use of Public key cryptography, also called Asymetric key cryptography.
Miners get the bitcoins as reward in a transaction with void payer.

can see this article anyway but read plenty on bitcoin mining last year so problery nothing new. Dont really know much about as techical sounding thing but is processer speed increase at the correct speed as projected so that newbit coins appear at when would expect or something like that